Not wanting to speculate on Fiscal 2010 deliberations, Air Force Space Command chief Gen. Robert Kehler waved off most budget related questions during a March 31 meeting with reporters at last week’s Space Foundation symposium in Colorado. This included inquiries into the status of the transformational satellite communications system. Although the TSAT program was restructured just late last year, Kehler did confirm that the Air Force has been studying alternatives to the current program of record, which calls for the launch of the first TSAT communication satellite in 2019. “We have studied options and there were a number on the table, to include continuing with the existing program of record,” he said. But, we’ll have to wait on the Fiscal 2010 budget’s release to know the results as Kehler would not say. “We will see what the budget tells us to do,” he said. (For more, see the previous Daily Report entry For the Guys on the Move.)
Dick Cheney’s Legacy with the Air Force
Nov. 6, 2025
Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
